Joe Rogan is quite the vault on MMA and UFC knowledge. The longtime UFC commentator has seen it all go down inside the octagon.
He recently sat down with Snoop Dogg on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, where the subject of UFC history and who the ‘most important martial arts figure ever is' came up. It's an interesting topic that can garner all sorts of different answers.
Joe Rogan went with the answer straight from the vault. Someone that doesn't often get mentioned in today's MMA world.
“He was the guy that introduced everybody to the idea that you could be a smaller person with superior technique and win a huge, no-holds-barred competition with giant people,” Rogan said. “What he did by showing people that you could win with technique. Not with being big, not with being strong but with knowing something the other people don’t know changed what a martial art was. All of a sudden martial art became interesting to really intelligent people. He’s probably the most important martial arts figure ever.”
Royce Gracie is a very important part of UFC history. He participated in the very first UFC tournament and shocked everyone by using his elite jiu-jitsu.
UFC commentator Joe Rogan brings up an excellent point that people watching learned that technique was superior to size in this instance. A philosophy behind the martial art Brazilian jiu-jitsu that the Gracie family invented.
Royce Gracie has been retired for many years but did make small comebacks in the UFC and in Bellator. The Bellator bout ended up being very controversial.
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